The Pied Pipers hailed from Cardinal Mooney High School and were founded by Les Moro, Pete Pompura, Lenny Krispinsky, and singer Dennis Sesonsky. Not sure why he gets "vocal" billing where the writer credits should go on this disc. The Pied Pipers' version, like the Hazards' version yesterday, clearly owes a lot to The Leaves seminal third recording of the number.
Check out the pics of Sesonsky on stage. Seems to be of a different time and place than anyone else in those pictures. All photos were lifted from the Buckeye Beat site. It would seem these photos were taken in '68 with a slightly modified line-up.
This one says "money" instead of "gun", which Stillroven does as well.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly they don't do the high lead until the very end of the song, the opposite of the Leaves 3rd version which only does it in the beginning.
I love comparing all of them apples to apples.
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